Thursday, October 20, 2016

"Chris Wallace of Fox News demonstrated a capacity to maintain tight
control over the proceedings and pressed both candidates on the issues
that neither candidate wants to address. In Trump’s case, Wallace went
head on into the accusations against him of sexual abuse of women and
Trump’s allegedly vulgar and predatory behavior.

Clinton, meanwhile, was pressed vigorously to defend her record as
secretary of state, her problems of untrustworthiness, the accusations
of “pay for play” on the part of the Clinton Foundation during her
tenure at the State Department and above all her undeniably liberal,
even radical, positions on abortion.
The American public endured a second presidential debate a few weeks
ago completely overshadowed by the charges of Trump’s behavior. By the
third debate, the back-and-forth — characteristically acrimonious and
filled with countercharges against former President Bill Clinton — had
essentially run its course. Opinions and views on the matter are now
set, and the damage to Trump has been done."